Can Weizman free Druze?
by JERUSALEM(JTA) -- President Ezer Weizman is looking to succeed where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed., During a visit Sunday to Egypt, Weizman obtained a promise from President Hosni Mubarak that he would look into "constitutional
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Weizman told reporters that extensive coverage of the case, which has strained Israeli-Egyptian relations, had not helped resolve the problem.
Netanyahu said earlier this month that he expected Mubarak to pardon the 35-year-old Druze man.
Mubarak later rebuffed the request, saying that Netanyahu had insulted the Egyptian judicial system when he called the verdict in the case "twisted."
Azam, a mechanic at an Israeli-Egyptian textile plant in Cairo, was convicted Aug. 31 of spying for Israel and sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor.
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